Elif Shafak’s BLACK MILK to Viking — Elif Shafak’s BLACK MILK a personal account of the depression, identity crises and recovery that followed the birth of her daughter in Istanbul, offering an imaginative exploration of her journey as a writer dealing with the cultural misunderstandings of both motherhood and womanhood in a patriarchal world to Viking’s Paul Slovak in a very nice deal by agent Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff Literary Agency. (NA)
